True to his word, Jefferson started the University of Virginia to provide free higher education to the yeomanry, which is what the middle class was called back in the 1700s.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thom Hartmann; Free Public Education; Why We Should Have it, Why the Cons Hate it] Reference

But the American "yeomanry", that is, nine-tenths of the country, weren't having any.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Thinker] Reference

Places were to be kept by a detachment of the "yeomanry" of each company sent on at six o’clock for that purpose.    From Wordnik.com.  [London and the Kingdom - Volume I] Reference

Wimpole to whatever yeomanry might present themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King] Reference

The yeomanry, who by the afternoon of the 21st had got to within.    From Wordnik.com.  [With the British Army in The Holy Land] Reference

Kauweilfeh, the yeomanry had reached the line of the Sheria to Wadi.    From Wordnik.com.  [With the British Army in The Holy Land] Reference

Among the yeomanry the general progress was exceedingly noticeable.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of English Prose Fiction] Reference

This gave time for General Schuyler to gather the yeomanry in arms, and for.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country] Reference

The yeomanry of England there showed themselves superior to the chivalry of.    From Wordnik.com.  [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference

The king asked: "What are the best means of collecting an army and yeomanry?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2] Reference

The yeomanry were mainly Protestants, but the majority of the militia were Roman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is Ulster Right?] Reference

The idea of doing this by exporting your "bold yeomanry" is, I presume, given up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference

In like manner a cavalry sub-district includes the yeomanry and army reserve cavalry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Afghanistan and the Anglo-Russian Dispute] Reference

He acted as deputy-lieutenant and as colonel-commandant of local militia and yeomanry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman] Reference

Oghratina and Katia, being well out in the desert, were cavalry posts held by yeomanry.    From Wordnik.com.  [With the British Army in The Holy Land] Reference

The volunteers, the yeomanry, the Glenallan clansmen -- all were there awaiting the great man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North] Reference

He was pursued for a short distance by the yeomanry, and some prisoners and camels were captured.    From Wordnik.com.  [With the British Army in The Holy Land] Reference

The aged man, in the khaki uniform of a major of yeomanry, remained in his position at the window.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sleuth of St. James's Square] Reference

Ancient as his race might be, the yeomanry and peasantry of Scotland were yet as ancient in theirs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844] Reference

Government, moreover, began to embody an armed yeomanry to assist the regular troops and the militia.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference

I said, however, 'I must know if any yeomanry are coming, in order to make the necessary arrangements.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King] Reference

The imminent danger served to unite all classes, the gentry and the yeomanry, Protestants and Catholics.    From Wordnik.com.  [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference

His body was borne from the house to the ivy-clad family graveyard by the sturdy yeomanry of the neighborhood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of William H. F. Lee (A Representative from Virginia) Delivered in the House of Representatives and in the Senate, Fifty-Second Congress, First Session] Reference

When the soldiers reached Lexington at sunrise they were confronted by armed yeomanry drawn up in battle array.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country] Reference

Early in the session 120,000 men were voted for the navy, and an increase of the yeomanry and militia was sanctioned.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference

The tales of the yeomanry were very popular during the sixteenth century, and were sold as penny chapbooks for many years.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of English Prose Fiction] Reference

This I received one afternoon, and on the following day Her Majesty was to arrive, and no yeomanry had made their appearance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King] Reference

If a sure market were secured to the colonists of Red River, they would speedily become the wealthiest yeomanry in the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume II. (of 2)] Reference

Procession by far was the array of Farmers and Shepherds, the flower of the west-country yeomanry, attired in the graceful plaid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844] Reference

Excellent roads traverse the parish, which is inhabited by a gentry in easy circumstances, and by a contented and thriving yeomanry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

Deal fairly with thy subjects, and rest easy about the warfare of thine enemies, for with an upright prince his yeomanry is an army.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2] Reference

The third and last sort is named the yeomanry, of whom and their sequel, the labourers and artificers, I have said somewhat even now.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference

The god-fearing Canadian yeomanry, as they sang these strains, nourished at once their religious feelings and their patriotic enthusiasm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812] Reference

These petitions do not embody the sentiments or feelings of the respectable, intelligent, and industrious yeomanry of the Western District.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference

The army fighting strength of England under the commander-in-chief is composed of the army reserve, the militia, the volunteers and the yeomanry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Operations Upon the Sea A Study] Reference

Thus to reduce a large class of the yeomanry of our country -- its very sinews -- to poverty, would be a greater evil than even the intemperance that is so common.    From Wordnik.com.  [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference

The bulk of this people -- by surroundings, habits, adaptation, and choice will continue to find their homes in the South and constitute the masses of its yeomanry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922] Reference

William was the hero of the day, and his fame for bravery rung on the lips of the Warwickshire yeomanry, while in the heart of Anne Hathaway devotion reigned supreme.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakspere, Personal Recollections] Reference